Satellite Sky
# Satellite Sky

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Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.

The album, which was almost entirely written on a mandolin, prominently features Heard's own 1939 National Steel electric mandolin.

## Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard.

* "Tip of My Tongue" – 4:22
* "Satellite Sky" – 3:48
* "The Big Wheels Roll" – 4:02
* "Orphans of God" – 6:22
* "Another Day In Limbo" – 4:31
* "Language of Love" – 4:06
* "Freight Train to Nowhere" – 4:30
* "Long Way Down" – 4:42
* "A Broken Man" – 5:42
* "Love Is So Blind" – 3:15
* "Hammers and Nails" – 4:41
* "We Know Too Much" – 5:58
* "Lost on Purpose" – 4:20
* "Nothing But the Wind" – 3:32
* "Treasure of the Broken Land" – 6:22

## Personnel

The band

* David Raven – drums
* Michael Been – bass guitar
* Fergus Jemison Marsh – stick
* Mark Heard – electric steel mandolin, electric guitars, acoustic guitars and mandolins, Hammond organ, accordion and harmonica.
* Buddy Miller – electric guitar
* Jack Sherman – electric guitar
* Mark Goldenberg – electric guitar
* David Miner – standup bass
* Jim Goodwin – horns
* David Baker – African percussion
* Doug Berch]] – hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer
* Sam Phillips – backing vocals
* Pam Dwinell-Miner – backing vocals
* Dan Russell – backing vocals
* Joel Russell – backing vocals

Production notes

* Mark Heard – producer for Fingerprint Productions, engineer, mixing at Fingerprint Recorders, design, artwork
* Dan Russell – co-producer
* Jim Scott – co-producer
* Chuck Long – production associate
* Jim Scott – engineer at Dodge City, Mama Jo's and Bedrock, Los Angeles
* Jeff Shannon- assistant engineer
* Conrad Kalil- assistant engineer
* Richard Benoit- assistant engineer
* Joel Russell- assistant engineer
* Chris Morris – assistant engineer (misspelled as Chris Morse in liner notes)
* Patrick House – photography
* Fingerprint – digital editing, graphics
* Design by Fran Larson – frame
